getfsent(3) and spaces in fstab

From: Simon Barner (barner_at_in.tum.de)
Date: 07/31/03

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    Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:45:05 +0200
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

    Hi -hackers,

    discussing some modifications for the sysutils/linneighborhood port,
    Heiner Eichmann and me came across the following problem:

    getfsent(3) will fail, if the name of the file system or the mount point
    contains whitespaces, be them escaped or not (file system names with
    spaces occur quite of with smbfs mounts).

    I searched the mail archives and the PR data base, but apart from this
    email here

    http://freebsd.rambler.ru/bsdmail/freebsd-questions_2003/msg05947.html

    this problem seems to be either unknown or rather well-known but
    accepted.

    I know there is workaround which is to create symbolic links for the
    paths that contain spaces, but to my mind this is not a real solution.

    Before taking any further action:

    Do file system names and mount points with whitespaces violate the
    specification of fstab? If so, the least thing I'd suggest is the document
    this restriction.

    Or should one extend 'getfsent' such that is able to cope with those
    whitespaces? I am not sure whether this would have any further
    implications so I am asking here.

    Cheers,
     Simon

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